By my estimation we're being peppered with too many company-wide earth shattering events in comics as of late.
Just in the last few years, we had Avengers Disassembled, House of M, Identity Crisis, Infinite Crisis, Decimation, Civil War, World War Hulk, Final Crisis, Secret Invasion.
I mean how long until we actually have the 'Secret Crisis of the Infinity Hour'?
I understand why the comic companies do it, to make fans by 12 other titles in a given month than they normally would. I can get behind that, it's a business and they're making money.
What kinda annoys me is that with all these events coming up every few months and lasting a few months... how much of a writer's actual story are we getting to before Geoff Johns or Bendis come in and start throwing their weight around the editorial departments.
I think there was an interesting case in Nightwing where during Infinite Crisis the storyline that happening just stopped abruptly when Deathstroke destroyed Bludhaven.
Anyone else notice that during the 90's whenever there was major event that did not start in an X-book, the editorial staff did not allow the X-characters to become involved.
An excellent example of this is the Infinity Gauntlet, the very universe is at stake and the X-Men send in Wolverine and Cyclops. Thats it. Marvel's meal ticket who at the time sure was on a lot of team rosters for being such a loner, and Scott "I know I'm sleeping with two of the hottest comicbook characters ever, but my problems are more important than yours" Summers.
So, how many awesome singular great storylines have we just never seen because "Okay, we're going to have Cap and Iron Man have a disagreement, you decide how your characters are going to go on this issue thats been blown out of proportion and has a whole lot of grey area and then at the end (in about a year), we're going to kill off Cap, so you'll have to have at least one issue where your character is effected by his death."
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
By my estimation we're being peppered with too many company-wide earth shattering events in comics as of late.
Just in the last few years, we had Avengers Disassembled, House of M, Identity Crisis, Infinite Crisis, Decimation, Civil War, World War Hulk, Final Crisis, Secret Invasion.
I mean how long until we actually have the 'Secret Crisis of the Infinity Hour'?
I understand why the comic companies do it, to make fans by 12 other titles in a given month than they normally would. I can get behind that, it's a business and they're making money.
What kinda annoys me is that with all these events coming up every few months and lasting a few months... how much of a writer's actual story are we getting to before Geoff Johns or Bendis come in and start throwing their weight around the editorial departments.
I think there was an interesting case in Nightwing where during Infinite Crisis the storyline that happening just stopped abruptly when Deathstroke destroyed Bludhaven.
Anyone else notice that during the 90's whenever there was major event that did not start in an X-book, the editorial staff did not allow the X-characters to become involved.
An excellent example of this is the Infinity Gauntlet, the very universe is at stake and the X-Men send in Wolverine and Cyclops. Thats it. Marvel's meal ticket who at the time sure was on a lot of team rosters for being such a loner, and Scott "I know I'm sleeping with two of the hottest comicbook characters ever, but my problems are more important than yours" Summers.
So, how many awesome singular great storylines have we just never seen because "Okay, we're going to have Cap and Iron Man have a disagreement, you decide how your characters are going to go on this issue thats been blown out of proportion and has a whole lot of grey area and then at the end (in about a year), we're going to kill off Cap, so you'll have to have at least one issue where your character is effected by his death."
